Bsdstats is included as in DesktopBSD-1.7 Release, so DesktopBSD will be counted in www.bsdstats.org.
Bsdstats
can be launched or is launched from console using bsdstats.send, via
rc.conf or via cron from
/usr/local/etc/poeriodic/monthly/300.statistics.

We have included tools to:

Connect to desktopbsd irc channel to get help using desktopbsd-irc

Open bugtracker page in forums using desktopbsd-bug-report

Get system information using inxi scripts ported from linux

Inxi can be run from console, terminal and even under irc client to send informations in irc channel directly.
desktopbsd-irc plus inxi are great tools to help users in #desktopbsd channel.

ISOs are installable using gbi (GhostBSD Installer) and includes another GhostBSD tools.
Please notice that Eric Turgeon ( GhostBSD founder and developer ) is also in our's dev team.

Please test and send bugs using desktopbsd-bug-report to be able to fix them.

To
enable desktop icons on desktop please run dconf-editor and go to
org.gnome.desktop.background and check show-desktop-icons. (desktop
icons are not enabled by default due to a gnome bug)

We'll use for support www.desktopbsd.weebly.com website, desktopbsd.boards.net forum and #desktopbsd irc channel on irc.freenode.server.

After a year of development, testing and debugging we are pleased to
announce the release of GhostBSD 10.3 MATE & XFCE which is available
on SourceForge and torrents for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

What's new in GhostBSD 10.3

ZFS support

UEFI support

Installer custom partition creation subjection

VirtualBox support get setup at boot time if needed.

4k partition alignment by default

GhostBSD Software will be updated Quarterly which will bring more
stability to GhostBSD still user will be able to change it to latest to
have the latest software update.

What changed in GhostBSD 10.3

The installer partition editor UI and partitioning have been improved

VirtualBox additions would be uninstall after installer if it is not runnig in a VirtualBox

September 1st, 2016: The OpenBSD team announces the availability of 6.0!

We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.0.
This is our 40th release on CD-ROM (and 41st via FTP/HTTP). We remain
proud of OpenBSD's record of more than twenty years with only two remote
holes in the default install.
As in our previous releases, 6.0 provides significant improvements,
including new features, in nearly all areas of the system:

News

This week on BSDNow, we have an interview with Richard Yao, who
will be telling us about the experience & challenges of porting ZFS
to Linux. That plus the latest news & feedback is coming your way,
on your place to B….SD!

Last week in BSD

BSDSec

Releases

The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release
cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6,
i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64
architectures are available
on most of our FreeBSD
mirror sites.

pfSense® software version 2.4 pre-alpha snapshots are now available.
pfSense 2.4 will use FreeBSD 11 as a base, and 11.0-RELEASE has not
yet occurred. There will be additional work to use 11.0-RELEASE as a
base.
More work at “reduction of technical debt” is occurring in 2.4. We
have decided to not carry forward the kernel patches for Captive Portal.
Instead, it is being re-written to use stock IPFW. That work is only
about 75% complete. Simultaneously, work is occurring to convert
several subsystems (e.g. radius) to use the PEAR equivalents:

We now use pear-XML_RPC2. As a result of the rework, you can now
set a username field in HA settings to connect to the other HA partner.
Previously this was always ‘admin’. The previous xmlrpc, inc,
xmprpc_client.inc and xmprpc_server.inc have been removed.

There appears to be a bug in pf (likely due to the interaction of one of our patches). This only manifests under high usage.New features and changes are listed here.
Full change list:
* source and build tools
* ports
* FreeBSD source
Outstanding bugs/features/todo items:
* Everything else
We advise that you do not use this on a production system yet. If you
have the time and interest, we encourage you to try this on a scratch
system or VM and provide feedback for any issues you find.

News

This week on BSDNow, Allan is back from his UK trip & we’ll
get to hear his thoughts on the developer summit. That plus all the
latest news & an interview with Drew Gurkowski discussing tutorial
writing for FreeBSD. Keep it tuned to your place to B...SD!

News

This week on BSDNow, Allan is away in the UK for BSDCam, but we
still have a full episode for you! Don’t miss our interview with Myke
Geiger talking about using FreeBSD in the ISP environment & the
latest news, here on your place to B...SD!

News

The OPNsense project is growing rapidly and it’s with great pleasure that the OPNsense core team
may announce that our team will be strengthened with Shawn Webb. Shawn
has already been doing lots of great work and his formal membership is
seen as a logical step forward by all of us.
Shawn Webb
Over the past year, I have had the wonderful experience of working
with the OPNsense core team in porting over HardenedBSD’s robust ASLR
implementation. It is with pleasure and humility that I have accepted
their invitation to join the core team. My overarching goal will be to
port the main features of HardenedBSD to OPNsense.
Address Space Layout Randomization, or ASLR for short, is an exploit
mitigation technology that aims to make certain kinds of vulnerabilities
harder to successfully exploit. In order to fully apply ASLR,
applications must be compiled as a Position-Independent Executable
(PIE). In the short term, my next goal is to enable PIE fully across
OPNsense’s ports tree. I’m using HardenedBSD’s ports tree and package
building infrastructure as a test bed prior to importing into OPNsense.
OPNsense is investigating migrating to 11.0-RELEASE for its 17.1
release. The Virtual Memory (VM) subsystem has changed drastically
between FreeBSD 10 and FreeBSD 11. Since ASLR deals with the VM
subsystem, extreme care must be taken in the update of the codebase from
FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.0. I will assist in those efforts by freshly porting
over the ASLR implementation from HardenedBSD 11.0 to OPNsense’s
FreeBSD 11.0 codebase.
I look forward to being a part of the OPNsense core team. The
coordination between HardenedBSD and OPNsense will bring a more solid
foundation on which home users and enterprises alike can build secure and scalable networks.

The last bits of Linux emulation have been removed from DragonFly.
It’s 32-bit, so it’s been unsupported since DragonFly went to 64-bit
only with the 4.0 release. Also, some other 32-bit only items are gone,
including the cs, ep, ex, fe, and vx
network drivers. It’s almost impossible that anyone was using it, but
it’s notable because that’s some… 15-20k lines of code gone? Removal of
unused code is also positive.

This week on BSDNow, we are taking a look at a few different
tutorials, including running your very own RPi web-server. (Come-on, you
know you’ve thought of it). Plus we have a GhostBSD tutorial, a look at
a GitHub project to run Steam Linux on FreeBSD 11 & more!
You’ll want to stick-around for your place to B...SD!